Information Security Policies are a very important part of a company’s protection; these policies are put in place to protect the company and well as the clients. It is important to maintain a constant watch over all security departments daily to ensure that everything is in working order. The policy below is a great way to keep track of the steps needed to protect your company and clients.
Romana Aftab
338 deare street
337-256-5555
337-256-5556
Alfred Beals Jr
2011
Information Security Policy
* Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 1 2. Introduction 1 3. Disaster Recovery Plan 1 3.1. Key elements of the Disaster Recovery Plan 1 3.2. Disaster Recovery Test Plan 1 4. Physical Security Policy 1 4.1.
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No information will be handed out to anyone who does not have a password to receive information. Integrity: We will not give any information, codes, or designs without first checking to make sure that the asking from the information has a valid authentication. This will include but not be limited to a password or confirmation code, no codes, designs, or schemes will leave our office without the person signing for it first. Availability: All information will be stored in our system until further need; it will be backed up by our virus protection to ensure that the information will be in perfect working order when you receive it. If there was to ever be a problem our company has a full recovery system so if something was to happen no information will be lost. All clients will have full access to all information as long as he/she has the proper password or confirmation code. We pride ourselves on providing the best possible service to our clients that we can and we further give our word that you will be fully satisfied.
Disaster Recovery Plan: Risk Assessment:
There are many risk that assessments that come into play when it comes to a business, in this cases our risk assessments are centered around the protection of our systems such as; human resources system, interior design system, exterior design system, customer privacy system, and our back-up system.
All passwords should be promptly changed if they are suspected of being disclosed, or are known to have
Due to policy changes, personnel changes, systems changes, and audits it is often necessary to review and revise information security policies. Information security professionals are responsible for ensuring that policies are in line with current industry standards.
* Review the results of a qualitative Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for a mock organization
This policy establishes the guidelines that the organization follows. This would include an acceptable use policy, an authentication policy, and an incident response policy (“The IT Security Policy Guide”, n.d., pg. 6). This policy will reflect the entire organizations security posture, not just the IT department ideas. A strong policy will help employees understand what is expected of them, and explain to customers how their information is protected.
Management defines information security policies to describe how the organization wants to protect its information assets. After policies are outlined, standards are defined to set the mandatory rules that will be used to implement the policies. Some policies can have multiple guidelines, which are recommendations as to how the policies can be implemented. Finally, information security management, administrators, and engineers create procedures from the standards and guidelines that follow the policies.
What type of risk assessment is conducted at the business? What systems are in place in order to provide
When it comes to the company XYZ Computers the disaster recovery plan needs to incorporate a lot of different questions that have to be answered before you can implement whatever they want achieved. The main questions that are brought up when assessing any question is,”How do we fix this? What are the costs associated with the plan presented?” Another question that should be asked but often isn’t, is “Can we anticipate this problem to help block it before it happens?” From there different categories should be implemented as manmade although not as common as a natural disaster that will affect your system, it still needs to be considered. There should also be a ranking system in the plan using two categories, these
The goal of the information disaster recovery processes and a robust contingency plan is to maintain the resiliency of General Hospital during any type of data disruption. Continuation of essential functions at all times requires the ability to adapt to changes and risks. The disaster recovery and contingency plans consider risk management and other security and emergency management activities that are
An effective information security program should include, periodic assessments of risk, including the magnitude of harm that could result from the unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the organization. Policies and procedures should be based on risk assessments, cost effective reduced information security risk, and it should ensure that the information security is addressed throughout the entire life cycle of each and every organizational information system. Subordinate plans for providing sufficient information security for groups of the information system, facilities, networks, or information systems.
For example a clerk will only be able to access a limited amount of information, such as inventory at each store. The limitations will be different for an accountant or the mangers. All information will be protected with several different layers of security. The first layers will be simple hardware protection for access to the network; from there the security will increase with password protection and restrictions to users. (Merkow & Breithaupt 2006)
An effective security policy consists of many polices which address specific areas within the business. These policies are designed to
Assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the organization’s IS security policy. In addition, assess whether the control requirements specified in the organization’s IS security standards adequately protect the information assets of the organization. At a minimum, the standards should specify the following controls and require them to be applicable to all information systems:
Integrity: is to make sure that the content of the information has not been properly adjusted or tampered with.
Integrity means that data is protected from being altered or changed while in transit or at rest. In this scenario integrity, would apply to the protection of data related to which hospital already got grants. This is very important information since this data is used to determine how much grants were given, the
Establishing an effective Information Technology Security Policy Framework is critical in the development of a comprehensive security program. The purpose of the Information Security Policy Framework is to insure your organization will be able to provide the minimum security level necessary to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information it collects and uses.